Thursday, 7 August 2014

Fur Trapping: A vegan's necessity

Where I live, the muskrat and beaver trapping season
is generally from October to may, it varies slightly within regions, but
largely encompasses these months. This season is often discussed as a
"winter season" although it tends to extend far beyond the melting of
snow, and far prior to the freezing of lakes, depending on where you live.

This trapping season lasts longer than almost any
hunting season, i am curious if you have ever wondered why? There is a very
simple reason.

Commercial plant farmers live their lives, make
their wages, and feed their families based on the quantity and quality of their
harvests. These harvests are intensely affected by environment as well as
regional fauna. If a beaver builds a damn, or muskrat eat a crop of corn. Farmer's
lose out.

To combat this fact, farmers will sign off on
trappers using their property to get fur. A seasonal haul of 2000-4500 muskrat
would be a respectable number (depending on the year and area) for any single trapper.

The harvesting of furs here is regulated,
however there is no mandatory census on the trapping of muskrat and beaver.
Furthermore trapping is only regulated by season, not quantity.

The point i am trying to make, is that fur trapping
where i live exists ONLY to benefit plant eating humans and farmers. If you have any
problems with the fur trapping industry, i am asking you to sincerely consider
the fact that without trapping, plant farming in a commercial sense, would not
be feasible as it exists today. Serious trappers spend the entire year getting
permission to trap on private farmland, because they know trapping is a
mandatory part of farming. If you are a good and locally recognized trapper,
you will receive the right to trap on a given farm. Trapping is so important that all lands are saturated by them. Trapping territories will divide themselves straight up the middle of a creek. This is the current state
of trapping here but the reason for this situation was created long ago.

You see, mowing down natural environments to create farms,
also created ecosystems that can only support a very small sampling of native
species. Muskrat, beaver, raccoons, opossum, and deer tend to thrive in these
environments in my area, If they aren't controlled by trappers (and hunters for deer and raccoons also,) then these
crops of incredible produce would not be feasible. If you are a vegan, please
understand that you HAVE to support reasonable and ethical trapping and
killing. Trappers sell the furs to make a living. But, they only have a job as
fur trappers so you can eat corn, peas, and beans.

As a vegan, you are aggravating two very serious
situations:

1- Abuse and rape of wilderness lands so they grow
only what you deem necessary.

2- Since your farms can only support some species
(occasionally to excess) you need trappers to control those numbers.

The statistics and reasons are incredibly simply.
If you eat from a crop, than you euthanized countless generations of flora and
fauna in the area the you've decided to farm and, if you want
those unbalanced environments to exist WHILE still supporting your crops, then
you need trappers to handle the lopsided ecosystem you created.

How does that stop animal abuse? It
doesn't.

Moreover, if your local farmer feels that ANY
animal is affecting his farm's yield, he is welcome legally, to kill anything
that he considers a nuisance. A person's commercial farm is a money factory,
not a moral one. Find me a Moral farm and you will find me an untouched
wilderness.